Gawker Changes Tune on Decision to Publish Hulk Hogan Tape

Gawker Media LLC, which has long defended its right to publish a video that showed wrestler Hulk Hogan having sex, is now blaming the ensuing legal battle on a former editor.

In papers filed this week in Gawker’s bankruptcy case, its lawyers pointed to a Florida jury verdict to argue that publishing excerpts of the video online in 2012 violated former Editor in Chief A.J. Daulerio’s employment terms, including a ban on content that...

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